Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-05

1887.
Piscataway, Prince Georges County, Nd. to
during the war OF 1872, and Will now lie a rect
road to the new bridge from Pennsylvan avenue,
and and is deemed OF great importance to the public
Ing TO make a more extended report, covering the
roads and streets in other parts OF the county
pecaay %1n the view OF proposing uniform plan
line"
THE uNBEPREsENTED SECTION.
Mr.. Frizzell said, after presenting the report,
that his committee felt some dencacy about max.
Ing recommendations concerning the portions of
the county that had been represented in the Com.
mittee OF One Hundred by the gentlemen who had
Withdrawn.
Chairman Fendan said that the eighth district
represented by Mr.. Frizzell and his colleagues, exc
tended from Rock Greek on the west to the eastern
boundary Of The District, and they were compe-
eerning the needs OF any part OF that
by Mr.. Frizaei % be referred back to the committee
with request that 1t submit report covering the
needs OF the whole county. Capt. Tyler said the
the Commissioners one report not well matured,
and was opposed. he said, TO sending another, as,
he asserted, such action tended to weaken the IN.
huence OF the Committee OF One Hundred and to
defeat the objects for which 1t was formed. This
report II adopted, he said would go TO the Commits
SlOuoIS as q report OF Cne COWWlttct Vi OIc nun.
dred. Mr. Frizze insisted that this report In re-
lation to Anacostia was made upon matters re-
ferred to the committee from the local association
at once before the estimates for the year were
completed. He spoke o: the committee organized
In the other section OF the county which pro-
posed to represent to the Commissioners the needs
OF that section,
member of the committee said that this
county committee was composed OF "outslders," :"
to do with 1t at all.
MIR. Mullet's motion to recommit was carried.
RESOLUTION NOT ADOPTED.
Mr.. Wilson offered q resolution that the presi-
dent be instructed to request the Commissioners
to furnish the committee with copy OF their esti-
mates at the same time they submit them to the
Secretary OF the Treasury, and that the secretary
have them printed and furnished each member.
.And have them printed ac the government
in the rear OF the hall, with laugh.
Mr.. wilson's resolution was defeated by vote
OF A to %
PROPOSAL 10 REcoNs1DRR Mr. LARNER's REPORT.
When the chairman announced that the COM
mittee was ready for new business, Mr.. John 7.
Mitchell remarked that he hoped they would bring
up the matter Of report presented to the Commits
stoners In relation to streets and avenues as they
owed 1T to the commissioners as well as TO them
selves to reconsider that matter.
Mr. E. B. Hay made motion TO reconsider the
vote by which that report was adopted by the
Committee OF One Hundred.
Col. Dyer suggested that after report had been
adopted and presented to the Commissioners and
the committee making 1t had been discharged, so
to reconsider 1t. He made point OF order that
the matter could not be brought up now, but the
chair overruled the point.
WHY MR.. HAY MADE HIS NOTION.
Mr. hay said in support of his motion that he
made 1t In justice to the Commissioners and in
justice to the committee. The report was made
by committee whose chairman, as they knew,
was fearless In any cause he believed to be right
He would not, he SAID, assert that the report was
forced on the committee or passed by duress. II
was brought up at the last meeting, and it was
urged that the committee would have to act with
expedition II 1t were desired to submit their re-
Communications to the Commissioners before they
prepared the estimates to be sent to the Treasury
on the 1st OF October. Though the report was
derstanding as to the points it contained. When
standing committee made a report 1t Was
deemed that such committee had given full con-
Siderat1On TO the subjects 1t contained. Certain
questions were asked Of members OF the commit
tee as to facts, and were answered from memory.
The Committee OF One Hundred had confidence in
the subcommittee and had adopted the report on
the state thus made. From What was said
1t was supposed that the committee had war;
missioners and their predecessors in once
had diverted certain appropriations from the
improvement Of certain streets 10 others not men
toned In the bill. But there had been gathered
certain statements and figures which would be
brought before the Committee OF One Hundred, for
the In Of the and to allow them
was no one, Mr.. Hay said, who would deny that the
Commissioners were good, honest men, and that it
was Impossible lor them. under existing legal re-
Strtct1onS, TO divert appropriations.
Capt. Tyler said that while he thought
that action upon the report had been taken
printed before consideration, yet 1t seemed to him
that the report had been disposed Of after 1t had
been adopted and sent to the Commissioners, and
the cOmmltte discharged from further cOnsidera-
uon OF the subject he urged Col Dyer's point Of
oraer, and made motion that the committee do
not sustain the ruling oil the chair on that point
Judge Upton made a point, which the chair sus-
tained that 1t was TOO late to appeal from a de-
cision OF the chair after the motion in question
had been presented and speech made in support
or 1t.
Mr. Scott Smith said he could accomplish the
same object by another motion, and moved to lay
Mr.. Hays motion On the table.
The motion was put to rire-a-roce vote. and
the chair declared that it was carried upon which
there was considerable applause.
Mr.. LARNER's REPLY.
Mr. Larner, who had sat quietly during this pro-
ceeding, then arose and was about to speak when
objection was made that he was out OF order. Mr..
Larner said he intended to make motion, and the
chair permitted him TO proceed. he had been no.
titled, he said, that he was to be 'cheWed up" at
Hay. He was utterly surprised at what he had
heard from Mr.. Hay. Mr.. Hay was one or the first
men to come to his office on the day following the
say there was no question but that the Commits
expressed regret that Mr. Hay lwhO had left the
aMr. Hay is gone" he said. "He cannot hear
It, but he can read IT,"
There was no man, Mr. Larner said, who had
ever taken amOre active or more honest part in
securing improvements for Washington than him.
SELF He had always been an improvement man.
He had nothing to take back In this report. He
believed he was as well posted on the subjects
treated as any man. When he had been connected
with the municipal government he had worked to
secure improvements, and it was matter or grati-
catton to him that his ideas had been carried out
by those who followed him. There had been a
great deal said, he went on OF the interview with
the Commissioners. There had been great deal
said OF burlesQue nature, and great deal said
that was not true. He read published statement
by Commissioner Ludlow denying that there had
been personalities in speech or action, such had
been described.
Mr. Hughes here interrupted to ask whether this
subject had not been laid on the table and Mr..
Larner was not out OF order.
Mr. Larner claimed the right to make personal
explanation, since the committee OF which he was
chairman had been aSSalled by MI. Hay. Mr.. Hay
had said that he (Ar. LarneD had stated that the
present Commissioners had taken the money ap-
pr0prtated for certain street and expended It on
another street not appropriated Mi. Larner de-
MED that he made any such statement What he
had said was that when the appropriation was